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John Roderigo Dos Passos (/ d ɒ s ˈ p æ s ə s,-s ɒ s /; January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916.
John Dos Passos was an American writer, one of the major novelists of the post-World War I “lost generation.” His reputation as a social historian and as a radical critic of the quality of American life rests primarily on his trilogy U.S.A.
Dec 22, 2021 · John Dos Passos was a novelist, poet, critic, and painter whose mother was born in Virginia. He came of age traveling through Europe and, after graduating from Harvard University in 1916, served as an ambulance driver during World War I (1914–1918).
The U.S.A. trilogy is a series of three novels by American writer John Dos Passos, comprising the novels The 42nd Parallel ( 1930 ), Nineteen Nineteen ( 1932) and The Big Money ( 1936 ). The books were first published together in a volume titled U.S.A. by Modern Library in 1937.
The 42nd Parallel introduces grand innovations in the form and content of American literature. The author chronicles the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, as the country angsts for attention on the world stage.
John Roderigo Dos Passos (b.1896, d.1970) was a writer, painter, and political activist. He wrote over forty books, including plays, poetry, novels, biographies, histories, and memoirs. He crafted over four hundred drawings, watercolors, and other artworks.
Oct 20, 2017 · Drawing on his experiences while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, John Dos Passos produced in the novel Three Soldiers a disillusioned view of the war and the military that established him as an important voice of a new American literary generation.
Over his long and successful carreer, Dos Passos wrote forty-two novels, as well as poems, essays and plays, and created more than four hundred pieces of art. The John Dos Passos Prize is a literary award given annually by the Department of English and Modern Languages at Longwood University.
Sep 28, 2020 · Coming of age in the Harvard that had nurtured John Reed and Walter Lippmann, Dos Passos, like others of his generation who became ambulance drivers in World War I, thought freedom must exist...
U.S.A., 1938. At his literary best in the trilogy U.S.A., Dos Passos satirizes America’s worst bankers, presidents, and public relations men. Instead of following his peers’ lead and writing one charismatic frontman to attack his themes, Dos Passos paints American society as protagonist.
